Roberts v. Prescott

Citations

• 15 Wash. 462
• 46 P. 642
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 219

Syllabus

<p>WARRANTS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS — INDORSEMENT BY COUNTY TREASURER — LIABILITIES.</p> <p>The provisions of Laws 1893, p. 268, § 7, making it the duty of the county treasurer not to register and indorse warrants issued by the officers of school districts unless the signatures thereon correspond with the signatures of the officers of the district on file in his office, are intended for the protection; nQt of the public at large, but of the county and the school districts therein, and no action will lie against a treasurer and his sureties, by the holder of a forged school district warrant, who claims to have purchased same on the strength of such treasurer’s indorsement.</p>